Bladelius embla software update6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Seriously, nothing on this speaker points where you’d expect it to. The tweeter is tilted back, though not as much as the mid range unit. The other odd thing is that none of the drivers actually point at a seated listener. Anyway, it’s dipole bass all the way here. And no, I don’t mean to imply you’re stupid, just that those curves are rather distracting. One thing that may not be immediately obvious as your eye wanders around the various curving surfaces is the open-baffle design. ![]() The $5,995 Gradient Helsinki 1.5 is certainly interesting looking. Technically true, all of them, but the sense of scale and impact is just totally lost. If I said “Tim Ryan of SimpliFi was running a convincing demo at the NYAV Show”, I feel confident that, as understatements go, it would qualify somewhere in the neighborhood of “the US deficit is big” or “the Incredible Hulk is strong”. This one thing is why you have dozens in the audiophile press say things like “I never listen at audio shows” or “the sound at audio shows always sucks” or “you can never judge a component by how it sounds at a show” or just “shows suck”. Room acoustics are the bedevilment of every audio show.
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